An overnight fire destroyed almost 500 houses, leaving 2,000 residents homeless, in a slum area in Manila on Tuesday.
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The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist called for a nation-wide strike on Tuesday to protest against an agreement for Maoist Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai to step down. According to the agreement, an interim government will be led by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to oversee the vote in May or June.
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People catch fish in the Yamuna river in Allahabad, India.
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The Shaanxi Opera team carried out tour performances for residents in towns and villages in Zhongning County, China, during the Spring Festival holidays. Shaanxi Opera, commonly known as Qinqiang, is the oldest of all Chinese operas still in existence.
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An Indonesian baby girl Dara Nur Anggraini, 10 days old, slept inside an incubator at the Tarakan hospital in Jakarta on Tuesday. Her twin sister, Dera Nur Anggraini, died from respiratory complications on Saturday after being turned away from 10 hospitals, her father said.
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Shiite Muslims protested against Saturday's bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, on Tuesday. The Shiites agreed to bury those killed in the most recent sectarian bombing,ending four days of protests, after the government said it had arrested 170 suspects linked to the attack.
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A pig-tailed macaque monkey takes part in shows for tourists about monkeys' role in coconut picking at the Monkey Training College, in Surat Thani, Thailand. Southern Thailand is an important area for coconut production, and monkeys have long been used as collectors to climb the trees, pick the coconuts and throw them to the ground.
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